Has anyone asked Austin about his thoughts on releasing GPL clients? Theres no doubt he has a passion to continue massaging world-data and refining the simulator design; I think if he knew users would still purchase binary client and data releases, pushed out through dvd's or bittorrent like he already does, he might make the switch from proprietary to free software.

Wow, I thought it was just me! Bonus points: linux, osx and windows versions.

*err, looks like the linux version isn't out yet. still, the 8.6 version is quite good.